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New Baja.
Picked this up during my short stay in California. It's a retired Baja 500 race car old school style. I just finished painting it John Deere Construction yellow. I wanted to call it something cool like "Killer Bee". My four year old took one look at it and named it "Sponge Bob"...
    
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TUFF STUFF Shawn!!
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I've always been a Baj fan.
I had a '65 about 20 years ago with a 2110cc and Webers. White five spokes. BIG tires and a chrome stinger. Hooray!! KT
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Is it fast?
Does it handle? How many gears does it have? Does it have disc brakes? I like it. Otherwise, I wouldn't have asked the above questions. 
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07-30-2006, 09:40 PM
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Yours looks more like "Killer V" than Sponge Bob, but Sponge Bob is cuter. I had one a lot like that a little over 20 yrs. ago, but red. They're fun.
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Handle? No. Gears? 4. Discs? No. It has some kind of sand flyer swing axle. It’s geared like a tractor. Haven’t been off-road yet unless you count donuts in a cow pasture. The PO didn’t believe in maintenance. He just drove it till something broke. There are quite a few things ready to let go so I am seeing to all that stuff before I go out and ram trees.
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Heres my old Baja.
 
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thrown_hammer, you sold the other VW just before you moved, right?
Yellow is cool, painting the rims would finish it off. Would that be too prissy for a Baja?
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see wally at ORW for parts. wally races SCORE class 1 w/mi amigo. now go do the GOAT TRAIL" in baja and enjoy the sights! avoid another snorkel, real bad things happen when you roll over ! ask me how i know! LOL!
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Is that 4WD?
I didn't think there was much room in a Beetle for running those extra driveshafts...
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I think they still have a class in the actual Baja races for the "Baja Bugs". Take it down and race it.
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its called SCORE CLASS 5/1600 for stockers and CLASS 5 UNLIMITED. dont even think about racing it until you read SCORE RULEBOOK! class 5/1600 is one of the most competitive and largest entry aside from 1/2 1600 cars. extremely competitive and you can have your A$$ handed to you. go to ensenada this nov for baja 1000 tech before you bite one off. you will be very surprised at what class 5/1600's have done to them. a turn key mirage new 2/1600 2 means 2 seat 1 means 1 seat, will run you an easy 40-50k to be competitive. ask me how i know????
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This was a class 5/1600 car from WAY back. Wouldn't even be in the running today.
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you will have lots of fun with it................fahrvegnugen
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1977 Porsche 911S 2.7L
